The art of film: The art of teaching, and head to heads with my lecturer

I have been taking classes here at manchester uni for 4 weeks now. I take two linguistics courses; American English and Englishes of the world. They are both second year courses. Before I chose I figured it'd be best to take second year courses because of the language thing.
I was wrong. Though I thoroughly enjoy both classes; they are phonetics, which is something that is not really present in my program at the university of Amsterdam. I must say it might have been better if I had just taken third year classes.
In the lectures (which last only one hour, yay!) the lecturer often repeats what he has told us last lecture. And then he asks all these questions about things he has already told us about three times. Now I know I am not the only one who knows all the answers, but alas nobody opens their mouth. So a week ago I decided that I was going to resort to just giving all the answers.
Now am I also one of the very few people who like to sit a bit up front in the lecture theatre. As a result my lecturer has resorted to just directing all his questions to me. Sometimes when the question is too easy, I keep my mouth shut as well. Nobody answers. I look at my lecturer and smile. He knows I know the answer, but I won't give it.
So basically I have four head to heads with this lecturer a week. And then on friday there is the other course I take; The Art of Film. It is the most amazing class I have ever taken. I really regret that I am not here for another three years to complete the whole Drama degree.
But for now I am satisfied with taking this wonderful course. I mean watching movies and analyzing them can it get any better? Yes it can! Because this course is being taught by the most amazing professor I have ever met.
The first time I met him is when I went to his office to ask if I could take his course. I knocked on the door and when I opened I found him sitting on the floor amidst huge piles of coursework. He was more than happy to have me on his course. Little did I know what big a treat I was in for!
His lecturers might be the least fun; very packed with information but accompanied with little jokes that mostly are not really funny but because it's Dr. David Butler you laugh anyway. Most fun is his ability to improvise. One lecture where we were talking about Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) and cinematography a girl walked in half way thourgh the lecture. 'Citizen Kane greatest movie of all time?' David almost attacked her. The girl was completely taken by surprise and did not have a clue what he was talking about. She was at the wrong lecture theatre and with a dark red blush she quickly left. David felt very sorry; 'Shall I go and get her back?' he asked the class, nobody really answered as we were just as surprised as the girl. And so he went to get her back but he did not succeed.
More fun is the seminar on friday morning. This is a tutor led class with a small group of people. I happen to be priviliged with being in Dr. David Butler's seminar. It takes place in his office! The first few times we had seminar there was hardly any space for the people that were there; his office was still inhabited by big amounts of coursework that still nedded marking. He deeply appolagized for the mess, but we didn't mind.
Last week, he had cleaned up! 'Wow it is so clean in here.' I said, 'I didn't know your office was so big!'. 'See Fleur' David replied, 'It is all an illusion I have just pushed everything to the side.' 'Well that's only fair I guess when we're discussing misce-en-scene' I joked. It made him laugh.
Me and one other girl had arrived early for seminar that morning but we were invited in. David left the office, the radio was turned on. Not only was it kind of strange sitting in a professors office when he is not there. It was even more strange that there were sermons being read on the radio and it was playing songs where people were singing 'Marching in the line of God'. Not that I frown upon religious people, but it was somehow very out of place in DB's office!
Also very fun, naturally, are the screenings. We have screening on friday and wednesday afternoon. And I ask you, what is more fun than going to the university to watch a movie? And if that is not enough, on friday's we play 'stop the pigeon', or rather 'stop the penguin'. Before the screening David plays the theme song from the 1969 cartoon Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines. He then throws, what I assume was originally supposed to be a pigeon, but is really a penguin (or more specific Pingu (1986)) into the lecture theatre. The students have to throw it around until the music stops. Whoever has Pingu when the song ends has to answer a question about last weeks screening. When answered right that lucky person wins a dvd. When wrong supposedly they have to wear a silly had all throughout the screening, but so far nobody has answered a question wrong. So far I have not yet been in the possesion of Pingu when the music stops, alas. I gotst to win meself one of those nice dvd's. That would be the best souvenir of my Manchester Uni experience.